May 18, 2025  
2025-2026 College Catalog 
    
2025-2026 College Catalog

FSC 271 - Leadership II for Fire Service Executives

1 Contact Hours, 1 Credits
1 lecture period 0 lab periods


Continuation of FSC 270 . Includes organizational structure, roles and responsibilities, and organizational values. Also includes organizational vision, fiscal management and priorities, innovative organizations, and executive leadership.

Prerequisite(s): FSC 270  
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Course Learning Outcomes
  1. Identify the organizational history including people and events.
  2. Define supervision, management, and leadership in a fire service organization.
  3. Examine and describe the vision for the future.

Performance Objectives:
  1. Explain the organizational culture.
  2. Synthesize and describe the organizational values.
  3. Apply principles of fiscal management to internal and external financial resources.

Outline:
  1. Organization Culture
    1. Elements of culture
    2. Power structures and influences
    3. Creating culture
    4. Managing the culture
  2. Roles and Responsibilities
    1. Supervision
    2. Management
    3. Leadership
  3. Organization
    1. Values
    2. Vision
    3. Fiscal management and priorities
    4. Innovative Organizations In Search of Excellence
    5. Executive Leadership for Organizational Excellence
    6. Self knowledge
    7. Taking risks
    8. Persistence
    9. Commitment